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By
Joyce
Davis
IBM
Collaboration
Solutions
community
manager
On
Tuesday's
community
webcast,
we
had
some
inspiring
community
member
spotlights
by
Matt
Collins,
VP
of
Marketing
for
IBM
Collaboration
Solutions
and
Mitch
Cohen,
Manager
of
Messaging
and
Collaboration
with
Colgate-Palmolive.
Next,
Marc
Pagnier
and
Fernando
Salazar
gave
an
abbreviated
version
of
their
Lotusphere
... [ + Read more ]

How
my
day
has
changed
since
becoming
a
social
employee
By
Carol
Sumner,
IBM
Senior
Accelerated
Value
Leader
I've
been
doing
my
current
job,
Accelerated
Value
Leader,
for
about
eight
years
(it
hasn't
always
been
called
that).
I
know
that's
a
long
time
to
stay
in
one
job,
but
I
really
... [ + Read more ]

Five
Minutes
with...
Matt
Collins
By
Colleen
Burns,
Influencer
Relations
It's
often
said,
you
can
learn
a
lot
about
someone
in
five
minutes.
Coincidentally,
that
seems
to
be
about
the
amount
of
time
most
of
us
have
to
spare!
And
it
is
with
that
in
mind,
we
are
launching
a
new
... [ + Read more ]

The
Dutch
Circle
Party
by
Femke
Goedhart,
Business
Consultant,
Silverside
I
love
how
cultures
have
their
own
unique
peculiarities
and
coming
from
the
Netherlands
I
dare
say
that
our
Dutch
culture
has
its
fair
share.
One
of
which,
apart
from
our
“Dutch
directness”,
our
love
for
bikes,
and
our
constant
struggle
... [ + Read more ]

Insights
from
SXSW
Interactive:
The
Social
Web
Levels
the
Playing
Field
for
Small
and
Big
Business
by
Kathy
Mandelstein,
Director,
WW
Demand
Programs
Last
week
I
spoke
on
a
SXSW
Interactive
Panel
with
friend
and
SMB
marketeer,
Jason
Stoddard
of
Stagira
Inc.
Our
session
was
Why
Small
Is
the
New
Big
... [ + Read more ]

Insights
from
SXSW:
Social
Media
in
the
Underground
World
of
B2B
by
Susan
Emerick
Program
Manager,
Social
Business
I
just
returned
from
SXSW
Interactive.
It
was
my
first
experience
attending
this
event
and
I
was
thrilled
be
a
part
of
it.
If
you've
heard
from
others
that
it
has
to
be
experienced
... [ + Read more ]

By
Joyce
Davis
IBM
Collaboration
Solutions
community
managerOur
March
community
webcast
will
be
focused
on
taking
social
business
to
the
cloud!
Join
us
for
a
semi-technical
Lotusphere
encore
presentation
by
IBMers
Marc
Pagnier
and
Fernando
Salazar
who
will
discuss
the
convergence
of
Social
Business,
Unified
Communications
and
IBM
Connections.
In
addition,
... [ + Read more ]

Accessibility
101:
How
accessibility
affects
you
and
your
business
Holly
Nielsen,
Social
Media
Manager
and
Webmaster,
Human
Ability
and
Accessibility
Accessibility
is
one
of
those
topics
that
once
you’re
introduced
to
it,
you
not
only
become
passionate
about
it,
but
also
an
advocate
for
it.
Some
people
have
family
or
friends
... [ + Read more ]

A
Look
at
SXSWBy
Colleen
Burns,
Influencer
Relations
As
I
promised
you
last
week,
I'd
do
my
best
to
keep
you
in
the
SXSW
loop.
With
the
help
of
many
of
my
colleagues
who
are
actually
covering
the
event
-
presenting
at
sessions,
hosting
the
Future
of
Business
Social
Lounge,
... [ + Read more ]

Suffering
from
#SXSW
Envy:
How
to
Stay
in
the
Loop
No
Matter
Where
You
Are
by
Colleen
Burns
(@colleeni),
Influencer
Relations
Interesting
day
--
I
got
a
notice
saying
I
had
a
spike
in
my
Klout
score,
but
thanks
to
Twitter,
I
feel
more
unpopular
than
ever.
Why?
#SXSW
Every
other
... [ + Read more ]

Food
for
Thought:
Social
Trust
Femke
Goedhart,
Business
Consultant,
Silverside
Social
media
use
is
everywhere.
With
more
than
800
million
users
on
Facebook,
more
than
225
million
Twitter
accounts
(source),
Google+
rapidly
gaining
on
the
competition,
and
countless
other
platforms
popping
up
left
and
right,
it’s
hard
to
ignore.
But
how
... [ + Read more ]

Making
social
media
more
accessible
Holly
Nielsen,
Social
Media
Manager
and
Webmaster,
Human
Ability
and
Accessibility
True
or
False:
Today’s
mainstream
social
media
channels
are
accessible
to
all.
Before
you
answer
that
question,
let’s
take
a
look
at
the
current
state
of
the
social
media
space.
Social
media
channels
enable
social
networking,
a
phenomenon
... [ + Read more ]

Social
Business
in
the
cloud:
New
website
now
live
by
Hilary
Kerner,
IBM
SmartCloud
for
Social
Business
In
January,
we
told
you
that
LotusLive
would
be
joining
the
IBM
SmartCloud
family.
Today,
it's
official!
What
does
this
mean,
exactly?
Well,
this
move
has
always
been
about
more
than
a
name
change-
... [ + Read more ]

Results
Favor
the
Social
Enterprise
by
Colleen
Burns
According
to
ZDNet's
Great
Debat
-Social
enterprise:
Real
or
fiction,
66%
of
voters
believe
the
social
enterprise
is
real.
Launched
earlier
this
week,
ZDNet's
Great
Debate
series
focused
on
whether
or
not
the
social
enterprise
was
real
or
fiction.
Industry
analyst
and
blogger
... [ + Read more ]

How
to
Fail
at
Social
Business:
Single
Sign-On
by
Carol
Sumner,
IBM
Senior
Accelerated
Value
Leader
We've
all
experienced
the
phenomenon
where
you
see
something
on
a
Web
site
that
looks
interesting,
try
to
use
the
link
to
go
to
it,
and
then
are
requested
to
log
in.
That's
understandable
when
the